Drying a Shop After Commercial Flood Damage in Nashville

3/14/2018 (Permalink)

Team SERVPRO Arrives With the Skill and Experience to Efficiently Dry Out Your Flooded Business

Flooding is one of the most common natural sources of commercial water damage. The impact of a flood is devastating to businesses. Apart from causing serious damage to the property, production, contents, and ability to trade, flood damage can also affect employees and deliveries that need to get through flood-affected areas to reach consumers. Additionally, it can have long-term repercussions to business turnover, with some businesses even failing to recover.
 
If your shop or other business sustains commercial flood damage in Nashville, SERVPRO technicians can arrive quickly to secure your property and return it to preloss conditions. Our priority is to minimize inventory loss and ensure you get back to business as soon as possible, "Like it never even happened." To do this, we rely on a team of highly trained, IICRC-certified professionals, as well as industry standard tools and techniques.
 
Every commercial flood damage restoration process begins by creating a "drying goal." SERVPRO technicians regularly monitor the drying process to determine whether it is on the right path. The drying goal generally indicates the ideal conditions of the contents and structural materials after completing the cleanup process.
 
Our water damage restoration experts use drier air (which has low humidity) to accelerate the rate of evaporation. An effective drying process calls for a relative humidity of less than 40 percent. However, specific humidity readings tend to be more accurate than measurements for relative humidity. A structure does not need to be dry to reach low relative humidity readings. Comparing the specific humidity in the flood-damaged area to that of an unaffected area can help determine whether the space is dry.
 
SERVPRO flood damage technicians can use moisture readers to measure the moisture levels of wet materials. We use the readings from dry materials as the dry standard, making them a part of our drying goal for the affected areas. We can also establish a drying goal using normal equilibrium moisture content level of materials. This involves measuring moisture content levels of dry materials in everyday situations, and then using these readings as the drying goal.
 
In the event of a flooding emergency at your shop, you may need quick commercial flood damage restoration services. As a part of your community, SERVPRO of Madison / Goodlettsville has highly skilled technicians that provide swift and reliable water damage restoration to the locals and neighboring towns. Call us anytime at (615) 868-5324.

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